Institutional Library Quick Start Guide
Institutional Library Quick Start Guide .......................................................................................... 1
First step: Find the exec that will give you what you need........................................................ 1
Where are these described?..................................................................................................... 1
Second: Run the exec to see what it needs to be told ................................................................ 1
Third: Once batch is invoked – use IA logon and batch............................................................ 1
Screenshots ..................................................................................................................................... 2
Variables exec asks for – these are needed for batch......................................................... 5
The variables seen again in the Control Card ....................................................................... 10
First step: Find the exec that will give you what you need
Where are these described?
On the documentation webpages (http://www.marist.edu/it/training/documentation.html )
we’ve placed a brief list and short description of the Institutional Library Execs. These are made
by I.T. for you. They can change. New ones can be added. Frequent requests for a particular
kind of report indicates the need to make a generic exec available for everyone to use whenever
they’d like.
The descriptions are also online if you log into TSO to get into the FOCUS menus. So if
you are finding the exec you need you’d opt to BROWSE the libraries first.
Second: Run the exec to see what it needs to be told
Why run it? You need to know what the batch control card needs. Once you’ve run a
particular exec over and over again, then you’d opt to go directly to batch. Since we are just
starting, run it and give the exec the values it needs to make your labels or your report.
Third: Once batch is invoked – use IA logon and batch
Batch is telling the mainframe to fetch your data. You are sending it a mess load of
instructions when you run an exec.
First will tell the mainframe what kind of output you want.
FOCUST for labels
FOCUSNP for a nonprint you intend to just look at or download
FOCUS if your data can simply run straight to a printer
Second check the control card
If the exec asks for semester, make sure the control card has it and any other
variables it prompted you for
Last – check the destination
If you chose nonprint you get an extra screen to name the output you plan on
downloading
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Since we usually run these to get labels or output – double check the destination –
as in LD150A for the laser printer or simply CENTRAL for generic labels.
Screenshots
Browse the Institutional Library – when you know the one that fits your needs best RUN it.
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Variables exec asks for
– these are needed for batch
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The variables seen again in the Control Card
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